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You Are What You Love

The Spiritual Power of Habit

by James K. A. Smith

How much do the things you love shape who you are? In his bestselling and life-changing book, James K. A. Smith helps you examine the things that form you in ways both seen and unseen.

  • A book for anyone wanting to examine where their heart lay

  • James K. A, Smith shows how the things we love form who we are

  • A chance to step back an examine the shape of your life

  • Author

    James K. A. Smith

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Baker Publishing Group

  • Published

    April 2016

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Christianity Today Book Award Winner

Martin Institute and Dallas Willard Center Book Award

You are what you love. But you might not love what you think.

In this book, award-winning author James K. A. Smith shows that who and what we worship fundamentally shape our hearts. And while we desire to shape culture, we are not often aware of how culture shapes us. We might not realize the ways our hearts are being taught to love rival gods instead of the One for whom we were made. Smith helps readers recognize the formative power of culture and the transformative possibilities of Christian practices. He explains that worship is the "imagination station" that incubates our loves and longings so that our cultural endeavors are indexed toward God and his kingdom. This is why the church and worshiping in a local community of believers should be the hub and heart of Christian formation and discipleship.

Following the publication of his influential work Desiring the Kingdom, Smith received numerous requests from pastors and leaders for a more accessible version of that book's content. No mere abridgment, this new book draws on years of Smith's popular presentations on the ideas in Desiring the Kingdom to offer a fresh, bottom-up rearticulation. The author creatively uses film, literature, and music illustrations to engage readers and includes new material on marriage, family, youth ministry, and faith and work. He also suggests individual and communal practices for shaping the Christian life.

1. You Are What You Love: To Worship Is Human

2. You Might Not Love What You Think: Learning to Read "Secular" Liturgies

3. The Spirit Meets You Where You Are: Historic Worship for a Postmodern Age

4. What Story Are You In? The Narrative Arc of Formative Christian Worship

5. Guard Your Heart: The Liturgies of Home

6. Teach Your Children Well: Learning by Heart

7. You Make What You Want: Vocational Liturgies

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  • Author

    James K. A. Smith

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Baker Publishing Group

  • Published

    April 2016

  • Weight

    386g

  • Page Count

    224

  • Dimensions

    148 x 219 x 26 mm

  • ISBN

    9781587433801

  • ISBN-10

    158743380X

  • Eden Code

    4369033

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  • Author/Creator: James K. A. Smith

  • ISBN: 9781587433801

  • Publisher: Baker Publishing Group

  • Release Date: April 2016

  • Weight: 386g

  • Dimensions: 148 x 219 x 26 mm

  • Eden Code: 4369033


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